oblong images in AE render

[Gilles Gagnon]

1440 x 1080 see attached jpg

Gilles

[Ben G unguren]

Your setup is 1440×1080 with non-square (1.33) pixels. This squished image is appropriate for a number of HD formats — but they “unsquish” the image before showing it on the monitor. If this is the correct setup (make sure it is!) then you can simply go into your comp’s View Options and tick the “Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction” box.

If you want literal 16:9 you’d set your comp to be 1920×1080 and the Pixel Aspect ratio would be “square” or 1.0. This is my preferred way to do it. When it’s time to render, if I need to deliver 1440×1080, 1.33, then I set up that comp, nest it, Cmd+Opt+F (Ctrl+Alt+F) to fit to screen, then render away.

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Ben, bare with me, I’m new to AE and HD.

I’m creating an animation which will be included in post in a project shot in HD, widescreen, on my Panasonic HMC-150. In Vegas, I set my project to 1440×1080, 1.3333 (HDV 1080).

So.. I want to make an AE project that when rendered, will simply be dropped into my Vegas project.

Back to your instructions…I’m still confused.

in my current comp, if I don’t toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction, things appear squished. when I don’t things look great in AE but squished in the rendered file.

In AE i can’t find a setting for 1920×1080, did you mean for me to force it? ie. change the setting manually?

G

Gilles

[Ben G unguren]

I was thinking that you change it manually, actually. But don’t worry about it looking squished in quicktime player — just make sure it looks correct in the editing timeline next to the original footage. That’s what counts. Have you taken your render all the way through the process (into AE, animate, render, into editing timeline, export from editing timeline)?

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi again Ben,

Thanks for the tip about the look in the player. It worked just fine when imported in the Vegas timeline next to the HD footage.

SO I understand, do you know why the footage is squished in the player?

thanks again,

Gilles

[Ben G unguren]

It’s about compression and codecs. Different flavors of video compression require different frame sizes and, sometimes, frame rates. One of the common ways to save space is to create a file that is squished in one direction (“anamorphic” images) and then to stretch it on playback. That way they don’t have to compress so much image, but still get the HD size.

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Got it. Thanks!

Gilles